Cancer Support Thread 98: support for those diagnosed and going through treatment

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Hello 👋

Thank you @Sbmppyou are so amazing, particularly given everything you are going through. I hope and wish that your scan results are good. Do you have chemo lined up now? I know it was postponed previously,

@Nonamelass- how lovely that you are back! I’m sorry you have had such tough time with treatments but very glad to have you back. I had been worrying about you!

Wishing you all the very best xx

@Nonamelass I’ve thought of you often. So good to see you pop up. Hope you are doing well (as well as we can be while fighting cancer). Prayers for you and Ventress. Wishing everyone more Christmases.

We talked about Christmas at the village pub. Expensive and decadent but who cares?!

@Ventress
You come across so calm and graceful in the face of such enormity
Your DH is a star - absolutely book that Christmas lunch, if ever there was a time for decadence this is it. And something nice to aim for.

I'm just plodding my way to the last chemo on Weds. See my oncologist on Tues so have lots of questions about what's next.
Its my birthday soon so have a few things organised- it will be nice to get out.

Then I really have to focus on getting my finances sorted. I fell down the cracks in the benefits system but I may have found a way round the problem

Expensive and decadent sounds just fine xx

Îm doing ok my American friend. Just a big tired but getting there 💕 hope your scan was ok. X

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@Nonamelass Still waiting but scan was just three days ago. I’m a bit more concerned about the egd/colo. The prep is a nightmare and I really feel for us elders out there with our battered vessels (bodies).It’s so good to hear from you.

@Ventress I kept our Christmas tree up until May this year. I love the lights. Some of the ornaments are almost 100 yrs old. It just warmed me to look at it every day. Sweet memories, decadent Christmas.

I love that you kept your Christmas tree up until May @Sbmpp and that you have such historic ornaments !! We don’t have ornaments with such history but perhaps we will leave our Christmas decorations up for longer this year😊

best of luck for the scan, egd/colo (when will you find out when this will be?)

Your body is amazing. All of us are amazing. We will follow our paths and some are way more difficult than others, but they are ours and we own them. 💪

@Nonamelassah, tiredness! I am stunned at how tired I get. These days I just tend to do things in the mornings I must admit. I hope you decide to do something decadent for Christmas. Decedent Christmas in France sounds dreamy!

Thank you @Ted27🤗

It wast my birthday last week so DH and DS and I went out for lunch on Saturday. As a “survivor” of NHS food last week that very welcome 😊

what are you up to for your birthday?

Good luck with the oncologist. I hope s/he is good with questions and you get good answers. I know that sometimes they can be vague. I can’t speak for the others but after chemo but this is my experience: I ended regular chemo (weekly paclitaxel) just before Christmas and moved to anti-hormone treatment of ribocyclib and Letrozole) both of which are very effective for HER+ breast cancer apparently, however it didn’t work for me. Because of the secondary cancers I have, not because of the efficacy of Ribociclib and Letrozole. Because the treatment wasn’t working for me I have moved to a new, tablet based Chemo called Capecitsetiabine (sp) which I’ve been using since April. It’s three weeks on then a week off (although I am currently on another 2 week break due to some nasty side effects ). I don’t know if that helps but ending chemo is, honestly, okay I promise ❤️

Sorting out finances can be complicated. I have applied for PIP which isn’t means tested. I would suggest involving MacMillan - they are very good at this sort of thing, Take care 🤗